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Nordic Journal of Music Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0809-8131Verify ISSN ↗1944-8260Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 39 / 536 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 96 / 692 | 86th | Q1 |
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 14 / 47 | 71st | Q2 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 36 / 115 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 39 of 536), Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 96 of 692) and Q2 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 14 of 47), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.488, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0809-8131 and its online ISSN is 1944-8260.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 1.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #93 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 47. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 85 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Australia (20.8%), United States (17.5%) and Norway (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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